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Mohammad Umar Shibli (Umar)

Project Manager

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada20 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of expertise in Scrum Master and Project Management.
  • Led cross-functional teams in diverse industries for digital transformations.
  • Certified Scrum Master with a strong focus on Agile methodologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Scrum Master and Project Manager with extensive experience in Quality Assurance across multiple industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

ScrumAgile MethodologiesQuality AssuranceProject Management

Other Skills

Agile Project ManagementAppScanBugzillaBurp SuiteCSMCommunicationData AnalysisDatabase TestingDevTrackEthical HackingFunctional TestingHP Application Lifecycle ManagementISTQB CertifiedJIRALeadership

About

With over a decade of expertise in scrum master, quality assurance, and technical project management, Umar has successfully led cross-functional teams across diverse geographies in driving effective digital transformations. Umar holds Masters (MCA) from BIT Mesra, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification, and Post Graduate Diploma in Information Security (PGDIS), showcasing his commitment to industry best practices. In his role as Scrum Master, Umar collaborates with executive management to leverage technology and agile methodologies for transforming business outcomes; also acts as a facilitator, coach, and mentor, guiding the team through Scrum events and helping in the adoption and improvement of Scrum practices. Umar’s responsibilities include removing impediments, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and ensuring effective communication within the team and with stakeholders. Being scrum master, Umar also shields the team from external disruptions and serves as a process expert, promoting collaboration and self-organization. This role is instrumental in creating an environment conducive to delivering high-quality products efficiently within the Scrum framework. Umar's approach blends technical proficiency with a strong emphasis on collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement, underpinned by his diverse experience across industries such as healthcare, telecom, retail, WMS, and DWH.

Experience

20 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Virtusa

2 roles

Associate Project Manager | Scrum Master

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

  • Facilitating the Scrum process and ensuring that the team follows Scrum practices effectively.
ScrumAgile MethodologiesLeadershipCSM

Sr. Scrum Master

Nov 2023Jun 2024 · 7 mos · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Transaction network services

2 roles

Technical Project Manager | Contractor

Jul 2023Sep 2023 · 2 mos · On-site

  • To support production deployment at the client site.

Technical Project Manager

Oct 2022Jun 2023 · 8 mos · On-site

  • Managed client releases and ensured quality deliveries. Worked closely with clients such as Rogers-Canada, Ribbon-Canada, Bell-Canada, GTT-Guyana, AMDR-Dominican Republic
  • Client calls and handled project progress using SmartSheet and avoided any communication gaps.
  • Risk along with mitigation, Issues, Incidents are well managed
  • Defined the processes and strategies to be followed for the Agile adoption. This increased the productivity by 30%
  • Efficiently managed different types of testing during Sprint Cycle like Security, Sanity, Functional, Regression, Integration
  • Managed defect/incidents & feature backlog
  • Collaborated between different internal teams to delivers the quality release on time and within budget
  • Owned the responsibility to keep all stakeholders updated and on same page
Test ManagementScrumQuality AssuranceSecurity TestingProject ManagementJIRA+1

Ncs partners

Technical Program Manager

Oct 2021Sep 2022 · 11 mos · India

  • Working as Scrum Master and owning the responsibility to create, manage and monitor different types of Dashboards/Alerts using New Relic and Splunk tools. As part of SOC, taking corrective action for Security Errors
  • Facilitating scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, sprint demo etc.), ensuring teams to operate on agreed cadence and providing support to teams to enhance their Agile practices
  • Involve in Requirement Discussion & Analysis, Discussion with Business, Sizing and identifying the impact of Requirement change
  • Performing QUAR (Quarterly User Access Review) process using the concept of AWS IAM and Privileged Access Management
  • Configuring and monitoring PagerDuty alerts
  • Handling and highlighting Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) which occurs in Splunk
  • Efficient in doing different types of testing during Sprint Cycle like Security, Sanity, Functional, Regression, Integration
  • Protect team from over-commitment, manage defect & feature backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs for on time deliveries with quality

Unitedhealth group

Specialist-Manager -QA | Information Security | Project Management

Jun 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Lead the Security Team and followed Security best practices to ensure secure & quality release
  • Facilitated scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, sprint demo etc.), ensured teams to operate on agreed cadence and provided support to teams to enhance their Agile practices
  • Involved in Requirement Discussion & Analysis, Discussion with Business, Sizing and identifying the impact of Requirement change
  • Promoted collaboration between Product Owner, stakeholders, SMEs, technology leaders and development teams by removing roadblocks and fostering communication
  • Worked with the business, technology and other project stakeholders to identify cross-team dependencies and mitigation strategy to facilitate team productivity
  • Efficiently done different types of testing during Sprint Cycle like Security, Sanity, Functional, Regression, Integration
  • Managed defect/incidents & feature backlog
  • Appraisal Process: Quarterly Goal Setting, Goal Evaluation, Rating and Appraisal.
  • Leave Management, Regular 1-O-1 with team, Hiring, On-Boarding, Training, Grooming

Hcentive, inc [acquired by unitedhealth group (optum)]

Manager-QA | Quality Release Management

Jan 2015Oct 2021 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Noida Area, India

  • <<Responsibilities>>
  • Involvement in Requirement Discussion: Requirement Analysis, Discussion with BA, Sizing and identifying the impact of Requirement change
  • Test Case Management: Test Planning and Execution
  • Working as part of Application Security Testing Team and efficient in doing different types of testing like Sanity, Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Usability, Compatibility.
  • Defect Management: Report, track and manage Defects from inception to closure by using Jira & ALM
  • Leading Security Team, doing Task Allocation and ensuring for quality release
  • Appraisal Process: Quarterly Goal Setting, Goal Evaluation, Rating and Appraisal.
  • Leave Management, Regular 1-O-1 with team, Hiring, On-Boarding, Training, Grooming

Hcentive, inc.

2 roles

Sr. Lead Consultant - QA

Promoted

Apr 2014Dec 2014 · 8 mos

  • <<Responsibilities>>
  • Requirement analysis, Test Cases preparation/review and execution
  • Carried out Sanity, Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Security, Accessibility, Usability, Compatibility testing.
  • Carried out environment setup activity on Linux machine with Tomcat Application server and MySQL db
  • Report, track and manage Defects from inception to closure by using Jira
  • Preparing Daily, Weekly, and Monthly reports.

Lead Consultant - QA

Mar 2012Mar 2014 · 2 yrs

  • <<Responsibilities>>
  • Requirement analysis, Test Cases preparation/review and execution
  • Carried out Sanity, Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Security, Accessibility, Usability, Compatibility testing.
  • Carried out environment setup activity on Linux machine with Tomcat Application server and MySQL db
  • Report, track and manage Defects from inception to closure by using Jira
  • Preparing Daily, Weekly, and Monthly reports.

Agnity,inc

2 roles

Technical Lead

Dec 2011Mar 2012 · 3 mos · Noida Area, India

  • <<Responsibilities>>
  • Headed the Testing Team of 5 members, did Task Allocation and ensured for quality release
  • Leave and Time management of the team
  • Performed regular 1-O-1 with team members to hear their concerns/issues and for its resolution
  • Involvement in Requirement Discussion: Requirement Analysis, Discussion with BA, Sizing and identifying the impact of Requirement change
  • Test Case Management: Test Planning and Execution
  • Carried out Sanity, Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Usability testing for Web Application as well as for Mobile Applications on iPhone, Android & Blackberry phones
  • Carried out environment setup activity on Linux machine with Glassfish Application server and MySQL db
  • Defect Management: Report, track and manage Defects from inception to closure by using DevTrack

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Mar 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · Noida Area, India

  • <<Responsibilities>>
  • Headed the Testing Team of 5 members, did Task Allocation and ensured for quality release
  • Leave and Time management of the team
  • Performed regular 1-O-1 with team members to hear their concerns/issues and for its resolution
  • Involvement in Requirement Discussion: Requirement Analysis, Discussion with BA, Sizing and identifying the impact of Requirement change
  • Test Case Management: Test Planning and Execution
  • Carried out Sanity, Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Usability testing for Web Application as well as for Mobile Applications on iPhone, Android & Blackberry phones
  • Carried out environment setup activity on Linux machine with Glassfish Application server and MySQL db
  • Defect Management: Report, track and manage Defects from inception to closure by using DevTrack

Unitedhealth group

Software Test Engineer

Mar 2007Mar 2010 · 3 yrs · Gurgaon

  • <<Responsibilities>>
  • Involvement in Requirement Discussion: Requirement Analysis, Discussion with BA
  • Test Case Management: Test Planning and Execution
  • Carried out Sanity, Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Usability testing
  • Defect Management: Report, track and manage Defects from inception to closure by using TestDirector

Hcl technologies

Software Test Engineer

Jan 2005Jan 2007 · 2 yrs · Noida Area, India

  • <<Responsibilities>>
  • Involvement in Requirement Discussion: Requirement Analysis, Discussion with BA
  • Test Case Management: Test Planning and Execution
  • Carried out Sanity, Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Usability testing
  • Defect Management: Report, track and manage Defects from inception to closure

Usha martin limited

Trainee

Jan 2005May 2005 · 4 mos · Ranchi Area, India

  • Working as Trainee
  • Requirement analysis and prepared and executed Test Cases
  • Developed the application on .NET
  • Carried out Sanity, Functional, Regression, System and Integration testing
  • Report, track and manage Defects from inception to closure

Education

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

MCA — Computer Science

Sep 2002May 2005

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Post Graduate Diploma in Information Security (PGDIS) — Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Jun 2019Nov 2020

NIIT

Certification

Jan 2005Jun 2005

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